Property Value Impacts of an Environmental Disamenity

Hite, Diane; Chern, Wen S.; Hitzhusen, Fred J.; Randall, Alan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.290292

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“…The more recent hedonic studies, including those by Colwell et al (2003), Simons, Winson-Geideman, Mikelbank, (2001), and Hite et al (2001), focus on proximity to an environmental hazard and demonstrate that this reduces residential house prices by varying amounts depending on distance from the hazard.…”

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Cell Phone Tower Proximity Impacts on House Prices: A New Zealand Case Study

Bond

2007

Pacific Rim Property Research Journal

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Cell Phone Tower Proximity Impacts on House Prices: A New Zealand Case Study

Bond

2007

Pacific Rim Property Research Journal

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“…33,34 The mechanism by which Lyme disease risk could affect human settlement patterns, in this case the population residing in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), is through the effect of risk on housing demand. There is abundant evidence that local demand for housing decreases when residents are exposed to human health risks associated with air and water pollution, [35][36][37][38][39][40] hazardous waste sites, [41][42][43] and nuclear power facilities. 44 In turn, lower housing demand results in less land conversion for new housing construction [45][46][47] and reduces migration to the area.…”

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Lyme Disease Risk Influences Human Settlement in the Wildland–Urban Interface: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of Counties in the Northeastern United States

Larsen

MacDonald

Plantinga

2014

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. The expansion of human settlement into wildland areas, including forests in the eastern United States, has resulted in fragmented forest habitat that has been shown to drive higher entomological risk for Lyme disease. We investigated an alternative pathway between fragmentation and Lyme disease, namely whether increased risk of Lyme disease results in a reduced propensity to settle in high-risk areas at the interface of developed and undeveloped lands. We used longitudinal data analyses at the county level to determine whether Lyme disease incidence (LDI) influences the proportion of the population residing in the wildland-urban interface in 12 high LDI states in the eastern United States. We found robust evidence that a higher LDI reduces the proportion of a county's population residing in the wildland-urban interface in high-LDI states. This study provides some of the first evidence of human behavioral responses to Lyme disease risk via settlement decisions.

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“…The question of whether depressed housing prices recover upon the removal of an environmental disamenity has intrigued a number of researchers, including Dale, et al (1999), Hite, et al (2001), McCluskey and Rausser (2003), and Messer, et al (2004). The empirical evidence in these studies is mixed.…”

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Evidence of Environmental Migration

Cameron¹,

McConnaha²

2006

Land Economics

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In hedonic property value models, economists typically assume that changing perceptions of environmental risk should be captured by changes in housing prices. However, for long-lived environmental problems, we find that many other features of neighborhoods seem to change as well, because households relocate in response to changes in perceived environmental quality. We consider spatial patterns in census variables over three decades in the vicinity of four Superfund sites. We find many examples of moving and staying behavior, inferred from changes in the relative concentrations of a wide range of socio-demographic groups in census tracts near the site versus farther away.

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Property Value Impacts of an Environmental Disamenity

Cited by 65 publications

References 22 publications

Cell Phone Tower Proximity Impacts on House Prices: A New Zealand Case Study

Cell Phone Tower Proximity Impacts on House Prices: A New Zealand Case Study

Lyme Disease Risk Influences Human Settlement in the Wildland–Urban Interface: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of Counties in the Northeastern United States

Evidence of Environmental Migration

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